The ruling of Kyiv's Pechersky District Court that seized a Boeing 767-300 from the fleet of the country's largest airline, Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), does not ban the use of the aircraft, the company's press service has told Interfax-Ukraine.

The company commented on the court ruling in case No. 757/50816/17-k, which was published in the single state register of court rulings on September 12. According to the document, in addition to the aircraft, the court also ruled to seize the premises of the Biola beverage plant, land plots in Odesa region, real estate in Odesa, Kyiv, Dnipro and other property in the case on PrivatBank (Kyiv). The decision was taken by the court on the basis of a motion from the prosecutor's office, which states that PrivatBank's management, abusing its official position, in 2014 seized the state funds of the National Bank of Ukraine worth over UAH 19 billion allocated for the bank's refinancing.

The ruling foresees the possibility of filing a petition for a complete or partial cancellation of the seizure of property. It can also be appealed directly at Kyiv Court of Appeal within five days from the date of the ruling was issued.

The seized plane has the state registration sign UR-GEB 1992 and was produced in 1992. It was registered in the register of civil aircraft of Ukraine, belongs to Portugal's Pennylane - Comercio Internacional LDA and is leased by UIA.

The ruling refers to Article 170 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which states that the task of arrest imposed on property, among other things, is a ban on its use. At the same time, the company notes, according to Article 173 of the same code, which is also mentioned in the ruling, if the petition is satisfied, the investigating judge or the court issues a ruling indicating, in addition to a number of points, the ban or restriction on disposal of property. However, there is no such point in the court decision. Thus, there are no legal grounds for refusing to operate the aircraft, UIA said.

UIA is the leading airline that connects Ukraine with over 80 capitals and key cities in Europe, Asia, America, the Middle East and CIS countries and provides connections with the routes of its international partners in over 3,000 other cities in the world. It conducts over 1,100 regular flights a week from Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi.

The UIA fleet consists of 42 aircraft, in particular, four long-haul Boeing 767-300ERs, 25 medium-haul Boeing 737NGs, eight Boeing 737s (including one cargo Boeing 737-300SF) and five Embraer-E190s. UIA's home airport is Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport.

Businessman Ihor Kolomoisky is a final beneficiary of the company.